Song of the Day: Tennessee Jed

Tennessee Jed by The Grateful Dead. Tennessee Jed was a song written by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia and first appeared on the band’s live Europe ‘72 album. Despite being a pretty popular song by the band, it never featured on a studio album, just live albums. The song is a pretty simple concept, it’s about somebody who’s down on their luck and dreaming of going back home, which is clearly Tennessee. Again, despite never being featured on a studio album, it was play over 400 times live in concert during the course of the band. The song was also covered by The Band’s Levon Helm.

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